wrong. i started this, but this thread is a community thread. therefore, everyone's thread. it was intended as a place to ask how to get specifics down, for example, how to build sturdy reverse joint legs for a mech, as opposed to how to build a mech.

rare part warning! those legs are great, but they use parts from modern bionicles, or something of the whole ball-and-joint family. i'll admit it's a good blend of regular legos with bionicle pieces (a rare talent indeed), but those legs took a lot of the feel of legos away from me.

Can someone help me,im trying to make a fast attack type squad.
I've done some speeders but i wanted to try make something like these warhammer bike's
yeah i know there just bike's but i want the bikes to have the military look.oh yeah and i need them to be common part's so i can mass produce em'.
(edit)this is exactly what im going for but its rare part's to make it.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=69906

Not exactly a construction question, but does anyone know a set that has good treads? i've finished the tank that i started this forum to ask about how to build the turret rotater (oh. my. god. it is HUGE.)(that's what she said), and all it needs is some good, fat treads.

actually, a fairly constructionesque question as well: how exactly do treads work in building? do you link each tread individually like a real man, or do you get pre-defined length rubber ones that are lame? also, is it just a simple wheel and axle assembly, or is it more complicated?

I bought a TIE-Crawler on ebay exclusively for the treads. It was an unopened set, so I thought I was safe, but when I started building it, it was missing parts almost immediately. Turns out I was missing about a quarter of it's components, like an entire bag was absent.

That was two weeks ago. I'm still waiting for LEGO to ship replacements.